Rich Bougaardt

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London's offbeat offerings and big-name attractions can be as enjoyable for children as they are for the parents.<p>Exploring the city as a family can lead to some of the coolest sights and activities around. Even if you don't have kids, you'll want to check these out.<p>The Millennium Bridge, with St …

Paris is a sprawling global hub, but it somehow works on a scale that kids can comprehend. The urban canyons of Manhattan and ridiculous crowds of London are largely absent, and despite the Parisian rep for treating tourists with disdain, the French love kids!<p>Having your offspring with you will …

France is seriously big– more than twice the size of the UK and larger than Spain and Greece combined. With great size comes great diversity – of climate, landscape and culture. Where do you start? If you’re travelling with children and want an accessible French experience with plenty of …

Rome's top attractions offer much to fire children’s imaginations, from the Colosseum with its past of blood-curdling spectacle to spooky underground catacombs where the early Christians buried their dead. The city’s historic centre is kid-friendly too, dotted with spacious piazzas, foaming …

Hiking with children can bestow them with a love of the outdoors and a thirst for exploration that lasts a lifetime. But before the adventures begin, you have to succeed in dragging them off the sofa and into the wifi-free wilderness...<p>Turn square-eyed digital devotees into wide-eyed walkers with …

Famed Lamborghini test driver Valentino Balboni explains that and more.<p>As a child, I cared nothing for cars designed before I was born. Now I dream of nothing else. And of all such cars, there is one that grips me like no other.<p>It is the Lamborghini Miura, and the one parked before me is a perfect …

Do historic photographs look better in colour? The colorizers think so. Skilled digital artists such as Sanna Dullaway and Jordan J Lloyd are keen to remind us that the past was as colourful as the present – and their message is spreading though Reddit and Facebook.  Read Jon Henley on the …

A lot of us don’t really get modern art. I was never great at school and dropped out of A Level photography so I would be hesitant to call myself an expert. Regrettably, I’m not sure if I have those eyes that see art in everything, find magic in the mundane.<p>As one of “those” people, I can totally …

Freelance artist Pavel Sokov went from an office job to painting a commissioned portrait for Time magazine in less than a year. He shared some tips with BuzzFeed Life on how (and when) to take the plunge.

<i>"How do you put a price on a piece of art? Is it different for different forms of art? I'm specifically interested in paintings. How are paintings priced in general?"</i><p>There are essentially four criteria which factor into the price of an artwork: 1) the media of the artwork, 2) the size of the …